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Biharmonic conformal maps in dimension four and equations of Yamabe-type

Differential Geometry 2017-07-12 v1

Abstract

We prove that the problem of constructing biharmonic conformal maps on a 44-dimensional Einstein manifold reduces to a Yamabe-type equation. This allows us to construct an infinite family of examples on the Euclidean 4-sphere. In addition, we characterize all solutions on Euclidean 4-space and show that there exists at least one non-constant proper biharmonic conformal map from any closed Einstein 4-manifold of negative Ricci curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1707.03326,
  title  = {Biharmonic conformal maps in dimension four and equations of Yamabe-type},
  author = {Paul Baird and Ye-Lin Ou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03326},
  year   = {2017}
}

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15 pages